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2025

The graphic novel Bhimayana illustrates the life of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and his lifelong fight against the system of untouchability and the prevailing caste system in India. The text distinguishes itself by the uniqueness of the graphic illustrations notably the absence of panels and boxes. The text is divided into four sections, each of which covers an important aspect related to the life of the Dalit community. The final section focuses on the art of Bhimayana and the efforts of the artists involved in creating the book. History and biography mingle in the ethnic spaces of Pradhan Gondh art to create a unique style which captures the struggles in the lives of the Dalit community. Gond art is the paintings of Pardhan Gonds, the indigenous people living near Madhya Pradesh in Central India. The patterns used in the illustrations add multiple layers of meaning to the dialogues. The mutuality between the humans and the animals, uniquely drawn creatures, the variety of colour combinations, the beauty of patterned designs make the text a distinguished work of art. The text works on the ‘memory’ of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, his struggles and achievements in life. The text is unique in that it uses a tribal art form to depict the life of a Dalit. Ambedkar’s experiences in life is synonymous with the drudgery and bitter experiences faced by millions of Dalits all over India.

2025

With the advent of climate change, humanity is facing monumental changes. Overconsumption of resources and fossil fuels are leading us into catastrophic ecological decline, and the end of the growth-centered society we live in is arriving, whether through disaster or design. Agriculture in Sweden is optimised for the smallest possible workforce and is largely dependent on fossil fuel. Repopulating the rural areas can enable the transition to a more sustainable agriculture, as well as making more variable and fulfilling lifestyles possible in a post-growth world, where personal satisfaction is not dependent on consumption of material goods and resources. Using sequential art and storytelling, I propose a new type of dwelling that can improve the local agricultural communities and help create more sustainable lifestyles. This typology, dubbed Microarcology, is a dense dwelling operating at a high level of self-sufficiency, and works in concert with the surrounding community and landscape to create sustainable energy cycles while fostering social relationships on the local and regional scale. The resulting design proposal is a vision of ruralisation that can provide inspiration for further discussions about the design of a sustainable future. I grew up in the small town of Rydaholm (pop. 1 600) and later the city of Växjö (pop. 65 000), as the youngest of three siblings in a middle-class family. I have always had an interest in speculative fiction, especially Isaac Asimov and lately Liu Cixin. The method of this project is inspired by their ability to create scenarios for the future, based on contemporary issues, historical processes and scientific advancements.

2025, âkami- (New Curators/Camden Art Centre)

2025, Life Writing as World Literature

A global array of contributors explore the interplay between translation and circulation, mediums and materialities, and aesthetics and politics in how life writing is shaped by and becomes world literature. We live in the age of... more

2025, Shodhkosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts

The paper examines the role of graphic novels in fostering critical literacy, underscoring libraries as a space to promote this skill. It highlights how the visual-verbal medium of graphic novels inculcates critical and creative thinking and comprehension. The paper advocates for the inclusion of graphic novels in Indian libraries, contributing to education and sociocultural development. The paper begins with a fundamental reading to define critical literacy and graphic novels, followed by close reading and visual-verbal analysis of select Indian graphic novels to demonstrate their capacity to foster critical literacy. The paper employs Ciardiello’s (2004) critical inquiry practices as the theoretical framework.

2025

partial fulfilment of the degree of M.A.

2025

İzinde ile roman sanatının bir bölümünü kapatıyor, modern romanı başlatıyordu. Artık kahramanlar, Honoré de Balzac'ın, Émile Zola'nınkiler gibi romandan romana dolaşmıyor, rolleri değişmiyordu. Tek bir roman söz konuydu. Bu romanda kahraman yaşlanıyor, konum değiştiriyor, ilişkileri farklılaşıyordu. Ve anlatıcı da onlarla birlikte yaşlanıyordu. Başkahraman ile anlatıcıyı birleştiren "ben"in Proust'ta yeni bir kimliği vardı. Roman sanki Sainte-Beuve'e Karşı denemesinde savunduğu "toplumsal ben" ile "mahrem ben" arasındaki farkın bir uygulamasıydı. Proust'a göre toplum içinde görülen yazar ("toplumsal ben") ile yazarın "mahrem ben"i birbiriyle karıştırılmamalıdır. "Toplumsal ben"e bakarak yazarın "mahrem ben"i değerlendirilmemelidir. Bu görüş modern eleştiriye yeni kapılar açmaktaydı. Ve Proust o zamana dek yapılmamış bir şeyi yaptı. Kayıp Zamanın İzinde'nin Mahpus başlıklı bölümünde, kahramanı Albertine, anlatıcı "ben"e "Marcel" diye hitap eder. O zamana dek okuyucu anlatıcının adını bilmez. Nihayet Albertine'in ağzından Marcel adı duyulur… ama soyadı, o hiçbir zaman öğrenilemez. Yazar burada modern yazında son yıllarda kullanılmaya başlanan "metaleps" tekniğini kullanmış gibi görünüyor. Kendini romanına katmak. Kayıp Zamanın İzinde konusunda yapılan özgün çalışmalar Proust'un yalnız roman sanatına getirdiği yenilikleri, onu diğer romancılardan ayıran özellikleri bilimsel olarak, yansız bir biçimde açıklamakta kalmayıp, onun niçin büyük bir yazar olduğunu da göstermektedir.

2025, SCIEDU PRESS

Comics is a sequential art that appeals to a diversified audience, a medium of reflection on culture, society, and history. Graphic literature is a discourse of dynamic interaction of graphics in literature, including literary comics, graphic novels, sequential art, juxtaposed images, and other dimensions of visual and printed images. A Graphic novel is the collaborative medium of the interaction of word and image, visual and verbal imagery to create numerous meanings and multiple interpretations. The term Graphic medicine was coined by Ian Williams who is a doctor, comic artist, and writer; He defined Graphic Medicine as the intersection of the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare. Graphic medicine analyzes and interprets the medium of comics which serves as an innovative platform for disturbing, risky, and taboo ideas of illness. Ian Williams's graphic novel The Bad Doctor (2014) is a verbal and visual illustration of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The protagonist Ian a general practitioner tries to cope with his OCD, his obsessions are comically and satirically represented through the artistic medium of graphic narrative and iconography of illness. Graphic Narrative of psychological illness like OCD by the sufferer of the illness gives a whole new perspective on the experience of psychological illness. Graphic narrative and iconographic representation of illness break down the traditional stereotypes of illness and give voice to the muted patient whose stories are unheard.

2025, IIS University Journal of Arts

Graphic narratives in graphic novels on illness treats the themes of illness and trauma as aspects of transition in life. Visual metaphors used in graphic novels present an idea in pictorial analogy, that represent connotative and denotative meaning of the image. In the graphic novel Hyperbole and a Halfwritten by Allie Brosh the author illustrates her life of suffering from ADHD with humorous images and dialogues. ADHD-attention deficit hyperactive disorder is a neurological developmental disorder, in which, the protagonist Allie suffers and tries several activities to cope up with her disorder. Visual metaphors in graphic narratives exaggerate and juxtaposes the idea creating hilarious illustrations of neuro developmental disorder, that becomes coping mechanism for the protagonist of neuro and psychological illness. Using visual metaphors is convenient for protagonist who suffers ADHD as she cannot concentrate to write down her feelings and thoughts. Through graphic narratives, the author feels the unfelt emotions of her traumatized childhood and revisiting the trauma of childhood helps her to have a transition from the victim stage to survivor stage.

2025

Slides for Graphic Histories - Lecture Fourteen - "The Future of Graphic History"

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Slides for Graphic Histories - Lecture Twelve - "The Fourth Estate and Graphic Journalism"

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Slides for Graphic Histories - Lecture Ten - "War and Anti-War Comics"

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Slides for Graphic Histories - Lecture Nine - "Complex Histories of War: Manga in the Graphic Space"

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Slides for Graphic Histories - Lecture Eight - "War and Society in Graphic Novels"

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Slides for Graphic Histories - Lecture Seven - "Oppression and Diverse Voices"

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Slides for Graphic Histories - Lecture Six - "Graphic Literature and Changing Cultures"

2025

Slides for Graphic Histories - Lecture Four - "A History of the Graphic Medium, Part II"

2025

Slides for Graphic Histories - Lecture Three - "A History of the Graphic Medium, Part I"

2025

Slides for Graphic Histories - Lecture One - "Graphic Novels and Media"

2025

Klasik masalların yapı bozumuna uğratılarak yeniden kaleme alınması literatürde anti-masal olarak isimlendirilir. Anti; karşı, zıt anlamlarına gelirken anti-masal kavramıyla klasik masalların altüst edilerek özellikle toplumsal cinsiyet rolleri üzerine odaklanarak yeniden kaleme alınması amaçlanır. Postmodern dönemde ortaya çıkan anti-masallar bu dönemin özelliklerini taşır. Bu araştırma kapsamında klasik masallar ile klasik masalların yeniden yazımı olan anti-masal kitaplarının içerik unsurları bakımından karşılaştırılması amaçlanmıştır. Araştırma kapsamında dört klasik masal ve dört anti-masal kitabı seçilmiştir. Nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden tarama modeli tercih edilmiş, verilerin çözümlenmesinde içerik analizi yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın sonucunda klasik masal ve anti-masal kitaplarının olumlu ve olumsuz yönleri olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Anti-masallarda kahramanların özelliklerinin ve olay örgüsünün tam bir yapıbozumuna uğratıldığı görülmüştür. Anti-masallarda karakterler çok yönlü olarak yapılandırılmıştır. Araştırma sonuçlarından hareketle yeni yazılacak olan anti-masal kitaplarının çocuğa görelik ilkesi göz ardı edilmeden kaleme alınması gerektiği ifade edilebilir.

2025, Revista Estado da Arte

Esta edição dedica-se às ações e projetos artísticos contemporâneos de caráter narrativo. Ao reunir contribuições de várias nacionalidades, revela-se a heterogeneidade dos modos de narrar e a identificação dos métodos e procedimentos de elaboração e apresentação dessas obras, que se estruturam com base em elementos visuais, áudio e verbo visuais, tanto de natureza ficcional quanto documental, e/ou híbrida.

2025, Revista De Letras

Esse trabalho pretende analisar as características que poderiam definir três personagens da graphic novel Watchmen -publicada, pela primeira vez, em uma série de doze episódios, entre 1986 e 1987 -, como heróis: Dr. Manhattan, Ozymandias e Rorschach (MOORE; GIBBONS, 1999). A escolha se justifica por serem estes, em nossa opinião, os personagens que mais influenciam o desenrolar da trama e por representarem, por meio de suas personalidades complexas, concepções filosóficas e morais radicalmente opostas. Por meio de um estudo da pluralidade de suas intenções e ações, verificar-se-á se é realmente possível enquadrar esses personagens em um único arquétipo tradicional de herói. Como aparato teórico deste trabalho, usaremos dentre outras bibliografias pertinentes ao estudo da figura heróica, a ideia de arquétipo intemporal de Carl Gustav Jung (2012) e as assertivas sobre moral e ética de Nietzsche (2012).

2025, @nalyses

Mon but, dans cet article, est de présenter et analyser la revue PLANCHES,
créée par Sandra Vilder et Émilie Dagenais en 2014. Dans la première partie, je donnerai quelques repères chronologiques qui ont jalonné l’histoire de cette revue, tout en situant son projet à la fois dans l’histoire de la bande dessinée québécoise (BDQ) et dans le marché francophone mondialisé des revues de bandes dessinées (dominé par celui de l’Europe francophone). Dans la deuxième partie, je ferai une étude systématique des dix-huit numéros de manière quantitative et qualitative pour révéler à la fois les structures, les idées et les tendances esthétiques de la revue, à l’aide de quelques tableaux sur la représentation des genres (gender) et des groupes culturels, linguistiques et ethniques et d’une analyse des catégories de BD (BD de reportage, BD humoristique, etc.). Je pourrai alors conclure mon texte en abordant la ligne éditoriale de PLANCHES et les raisons possibles de son succès et de sa précarité.

2025, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

In China is a graphic travelogue. A travelogue usually describes the traveller's reactions when interacting with the foreign country's people, institutions and land-scape. These reactions are diverse according to multiple factors, but they all share a form of culture shock. In Education Abroad Studies, culture shock consists of distinct phases. However, Cultural Studies are more interested in the reaction towards the traveller's foreign culture, which could take the form of antipathetic comments about the visited region for ideological reasons. As Edward Said shows, the reaction deeply depends on the power relation between the two countries. But as some of Said's critics argue, some artists find ways to counter these orientalist clichés. Moreover, the culture shock has also recently changed because we live in an age of new technologies that could act as a catalyst of global social integration and crosscultural transition. In our article, I show how Sascha Hommer's alternative graphic travelogue uses challenging visual techniques (masks, anthropomorphic animals, visual epigraphs, dream episodes) to circumvent the (often negative) stereotyping of Chinese culture. By changing his mask twice (from a cat to a panda), Hommer visually displays how accepting the fact that identity is in flux facilitates a positive welcoming attitude.

2025

The New Administrative Capital (NAC) has emerged as a symbol of the strength of Egypt's 'new republic' and a marker of its political and economic stability. Yet, its development has so far faced significant challenges, raising questions about its capacity to deliver on its grand promises. This article examines the economic, social, and urban impacts of the new capital on Cairo and other Egyptian cities, while placing at the centre of this discussion an assessment of the state's official narrative surrounding the project. The article is grounded in the hypothesis that the project has yielded both direct and indirect impacts on Egyptian citizens' rights to urbanisation and urban development. It also explores the adverse interplay between the new city and pre-existing urban centres in Egypt. The analysis draws primarily on official statements as articulated by key figures responsible for the new capital's political, economic, and administrative development. It also incorporates press reporting of the city's relationship with Egypt's broader economy. The findings suggest that the New Administrative Capital is not merely an urban development initiative but a project with profound implications for the social fabric of Cairo and other Egyptian regions. These outcomes necessitate a comprehensive reassessment of the urbanisation strategies and financial policies tied to the new city.

2025, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies

This paper focuses on the narrativity in wordless comics, that is, in comics that do not use words or use them only scarcely. The verbalvisual duality of comics is always semiotically challenging. The absence of words in wordless comics foregrounds their visual component which carries additional narrative or aesthetic meaning for the comic as a whole. First, several contemporary narratological models are considered. Most often narratives are considered as a description of a series of situations and events, independently of the medium in which they occur. Among scholars of comic studies, the author presents Eisner and McCloud's concept of sequence as a focal point of plotting in comics, which has similar characteristics to narrating and storytelling in literature. The author also explores several models of medium-specific modifications such as comic focalization markers, monstration, and graphic enunciation with special attention paid to wordless comics. Finally, the author demonstrates the proposed analytical model through two examples: Mirko Ilić's Horizontal and Vertical (1978) and Ileana Surducan's The Quest (2014).

2025, Studies in Comics

Her research explores the media representations of human vulnerability and the everyday lived experiences of people affected by disasters. She regularly collaborates with artists to communicate her research in creative, thoughtful and... more

2025, Journal Article

Tyler Feder's Dancing at the Pity Party is her debut graphic memoir published by Penguin Random House in 2020. Her poignant narrative which delineates the sociocultural notions on death and personal expressions of grief won several accolades including the Sydney Taylor Young Adult Book Award and the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction nomination. Feder's critically acclaimed narratives such as Bodies Are Cool and Are You Mad at Me? and other humourous illustrations in Unladylike and Together We March explore feminism, body image, pop culture, and mental health. In this interview, Tyler Feder shares her dual role as a daughter who had to process the loss of her mother and as a comic artist who had to represent the challenges posed by the social silence on death and grieving in her memoir, Dancing at the Pity Party. The conversation reflects on the transformative power of art and the role of an artist in debunking irrational social myths surrounding illness and death.

2024, BMJ/Medical Humanities

This article aims to examine the lived experiences of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis in adulthood, emphasising its revelatory nature and diverse emotional responses it provokes. The diagnosis serves as a pivotal moment of self-discovery, often evoking feelings of validation and identity affirmation. However, it also triggers a complex array of emotions, including grieving for the childhood self, frustration with society’s failure to recognise the legitimate challenges and evolving self-concept post diagnosis. Through a close reading of digitally published comics by Laura Balcerek, Amber Lewis and Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray, this article studies how the graphic medium conveys these nuanced experiences. By dissecting narrative and visual elements inherent in the comics, the article studies the affordances of the comic medium to capture the lived experiences of ADHD diagnosis in adulthood. Ultimately, this article intends to deepen understanding of the diverse lived realities and underscores the expressive potential of graphic narratives of neurodivergence.

2024, Milli Folklor

Grimms’ Fairy Tales are one of the most important works that reveal the characteristics of German culture and folklore. Fairy tales, which reflect a society's values, traditions, and worldview and tell them in a cultural context, include gender roles and are passed on to children, thus ensuring the transmission of gender norms from generation to generation. In this respect, Grimms’ Fairy Tales are tools that serve to transmit the
concept of gender to different generations. In addition, the social status and personality traits in these tales
allow us to see the reflections of gender on social life within the cultural understanding of the period. This study aims to examine how the social status and personality traits of male and female characters in Grimms’
Fairy Tales are portrayed in terms of gender and how the idea of gender is transferred to society through these tools. For this purpose, the social status and personality traits of the characters in the fairy tales are analysed on the basis of gender, and how gender is represented in fairy tales and the roles and behaviours of men and women in society are discussed. This analysis has the potential to understand the gender norms of the past through Grimms’ Fairy Tales and to question the ideas about gender roles that still persist today. In addition, examining the status and personality traits in fairy tales in terms of gender helps us understand how folklore shapes people's identities and values and contributes to our understanding of how gender roles have been
shaped throughout history and how they still affect ongoing debates. Document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. Within the scope of the research, 210 tales in Grimms’ Fairy Tales were analysed, and it is found that there was no social status in 22 tales. For this reason, 188 fairy tales were analysed while examining social status and personality traits. When the status of men and women is analysed, the most essential feature that draws attention is the determining effect of gender on status. When the social status and personality traits in Grimms’ Fairy Tales are analysed, it is seen that there are significant differences between male and female characters. It is also found that male characters assume more diverse social roles in fairy tales, while female characters are mostly depicted in domestic roles such as housework and service. Female characters are positioned in a passive way, and women are not given any social status other than gender-based occupational statuses such as that of cooks and maids. When Grimms’ Fairy Tales are analysed in terms of the personality traits of men and women, it is seen that men are mostly depicted with positive traits, and women are mostly depicted with negative traits. While male characters generally represent strong, leader, and extroverted roles, female characters are depicted as more passive, more domestic, sacrificing, and protective figures. These differences reflect the gender inequalities of 19th century Germany, where Grimms’ Fairy Tales were written, and show that women's power and influence in society were limited. This
research offers a new perspective to understand how fairy tales affect people's identities and values. This study based on Grimms’ Fairy Tales may reveal that folklore has the potential to understand and change gender roles.

2024, Humanitas

Un viaje memorioso por la literatura infantil y juvenil A thoughtful journey through children's and youth literature

2024, Concentric

In this study I examine a limited aspect of spatial representation in Golden Age, hard-boiled, and postmodern detective fiction. I situate these representations within a theory of architectural enclosure, Tschumi's pyramid/labyrinth distinction, then employ concepts derived from Gestalt theory as pointing up an ideological tendency in the Golden Age floor plans and diagrams by which crime is contained and spaces are normalized. John Dickson Carr's The Problem of the Wire Cage (1939) serves as a test case. The subsequent sections offer spatial analyses of Dashiell Hammett's "The Whosis Kid" (1925) and "Dead Yellow Women" (1925) and Paul Auster's City of Glass (1987). Hammett's stories illustrate the breakdown of visual mastery in disorienting spaces whose textual representation parallels the Op's own limited knowledge. Auster's diagrams appear to offer a synthesis of prior positions: he incorporates plans which seem to promise meaning but which ultimately fail to establish certainty. I argue, however, that Auster's plans are most effectively read in their specific socio-historical and political context and that the performative loss of referential certainty in his protagonist reflects a form of critique that differs from earlier genres' use of these figures.

2024

espanolGracias al creciente interes academico por el comic y la novela grafica, algunos autores como Roger Sabin o Santiago Garcia han llamado la atencion sobre el parentesco que estos generos modernos de narracion grafica comparten con las hojas volanderas que, durante la Baja Edad Media y el Renacimiento, referian vidas de santos, escenas populares, alegorias misticas o pasajes biblicos mediante secuencias de vinetas. En su monumental obra The History of Comic Strip, David Kunzle reunio el primer y hasta el momento unico corpus de este tipo de grabados, a los que denomino �tiras narrativas�, dejando pendiente la tarea de analizar sus caracteristicas formales;tarea a la que nos proponemos dar comienzo en este articulo con el fin de establecer un puente de dialogo entre la narracion grafica y la historia del arte. EnglishDue to the growing academic interest in comics and graphic novels, some authors such as Roger Sabin or Santiago Garcia have emphasized the kinship these modern genr...

2024, What She says About Love / Quello che lei dice dell’amore

2024, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

2024

RESUMEN: ¿No es el concurso de arquitectura el mejor territorio de investigación para un arquitecto?; ¿no es la producción colectiva que un concurso implica, un aval para centrar el propio resultado e interpretar la propia contribución?; ¿no puede ser el conjunto de los concursos en los que un arquitecto ha participado, su aportación al ámbito especulativo de la investigación en la arquitectura? Defender esa cultura que valore y mime el concurso de arquitectura como laboratorio de investigación y que evite la dicotomía con el perfil investigador tradicional, puede ser clave para la ineludible reformulación de la universidad y la arquitectura, que ya está teniendo lugar.

2024

In the midst of rapid technological advance, a new era in literature writing has emerged. Wider network of Internet has given the opportunities to authors to become more prolific and creative in producing their work. In the virtual space, the number of authors grows and each one of them strives to grab the readers’ attention. Websites and social networking sites become the medium for authors to harness their creative mind through their writings. For writers who has envisioned becoming authors or writers who fail to establish themselves in the mainstream media, the Internet is perceived as a medium that is very easy for them to write. Nevertheless, with the impact of technological advances that covers almost all aspects of the public’s life, literary work is seen as not too distant from the conventional literature. The type of written material still resembles the printed ones. In fact, the use of multimedia is not fully utilized to produce literary work, which is different from the c...

2024, superILLU. Zu einer Theorie der Illustration/superILLU. Towards a Theory of Illustration

Don’t look now… On the connection between the representation and perception of movement in pictorial stories using the example of three double pages from Ute Helmbold’s “Days in Venice”

2024, Approaches to Drawing in Architectural and Urban Design

The presence of cartoons, comics, and graphic narrative has an at least centennial history that can be dated as far back as Le Corbusier’s childhood. However, the introduction of comics in the design studio is not a recent development1.... more

2024

Geography has recently undergone a creative return whereby influences from the humanities inspire the production, analysis, and incorporation of creative works in geographical research (de Leeuw & Hawkins, 2017). With their ever-growing popularity in the humanities, graphic novels are one example of a creative work gaining epistemological momentum in geography. Graphic novels have proven attractive to geographers for their ability to represent knowledges that challenge dominant social structures and discourses. In this thesis, I conduct visual, textual, and discourse analyses of three graphic memoirs by women that challenge pathological mental health discourses: Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green, Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder by Nadia Shivack, and My Depression by Elizabeth Swados. Using an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research approach, I build on the literatures from the geohumanities, feminist geographies, graphic medicine, and health geographies to ar...

2024, Reading Autobiography Now: An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives

Our "Reading Autobiography Now" is the third, much-revised and updated third edition of our earlier book. This detailed TOC gives an extensive overview of the topics, terms, and issues it covers

2024, Reading Autobiography Now: An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives

The extended table of contents for the third edition of Reading Autobiography Now (2024)

2024, Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies

The social construction of disability is an issue that needs to be analysed and examined in order to arrive at a proper understanding of the discipline. Disability studies from the beginning of its journey has undergone many changes of perspectives, from a medically determined categorisation to a social model of disability, thereby leading to a distinction between impairment and disability. In spite of these transitions, society still fails to possess a more sensitive attitude. Among different categories of reservation among government policies, we come across a category called "PWD" which means Persons with Disabilities. Although this categorisation is supposed to provide more opportunities to differently abled people but the nomenclature itself is derogatory. The objective of this paper is to analyse a Graphic novel Mai by Sriram Jagannath to find out how the issue of disability is received by the society and the efficacy of the graphic medium to bring about a change in perspective regarding people with disabilities.

2024, European Journal of Life Writing

As those who write themselves, life narrators are readers, interpreters, and curators of the archival material, both intimate and impersonal, accrued during their lifetimes. These materials form an archival pre-life that is extended and complemented by posthumous remediations of their narrated lives. Personal archives may include writing in journals and diaries, digital exchanges on social media and blogs, documents, and images in photographs and drawings, as well as the ephemera of recorded memories and impressions; as this archive is activated in life writing, its texts project an archival imaginary. Once a life narrative enters public circulation, the archive of self accrues future “afterlives” as it is edited, reframed, and remediated in subsequent editions and by translation into other languages or media for different reading publics, both during and after a writer’s life.
The interactive relationship of self-archives and afterlives makes clear that the texts of self-life-writing, whether published or unpublished, complete or fragmentary, are objects of inquiry in movement—not transparent, stable phenomena that generate “truth,” but dynamic sites open to interpretation in their textual afterlives. An autobiographical narrative is, thus, never just “the life”: supplements, remediations, and new versions are created in interactions with the practices and positions of new generations of readers. This essay takes up the iterative, interactive, intersubjective dynamics of autobiographical archives and the temporalities of autobiographical afterlives in eight exemplary cases of life writing. Observing autobiographical archives in their histories of circulation, republication, and repurposing situates the question of afterlives as a mode of “beyond endings” in larger debates about ethical reading, methodological constraint, and theoretical adequacy.

2024, Comics of the New Europe

Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain like East Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine, given their shared history of WWII and communism. In addition to situating these graphic narratives in their national and subnational contexts, Comics of the New Europe pays particular attention to transnational connections along the common themes of nostalgia, memoir, and life under communism. The essays offer insights into a new generation of European cartoonists that looks forward, inspired and informed by traditions from Franco-Belgian and American comics, and back, as they use the medium of comics to reexamine and reevaluate not only their national pasts and respective comics traditions but also their own post-1989 identities and experiences.

2024, JOURNAL OF GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COMICS

Situated at the crossroads of scholarly inquiry in gender studies and
counter-cultural studies, this paper analyses how the two zines by
the multimodal platform Agents of Ishq viz. What is normal? AKA
Heteronormativity Kya Hai? and The Political Power of Pleasure, ‘perform’ as a space for sexuality-studies sensitisation and create
a platform for inclusive and intersectional sex education. The use
of handmade illustrations, intermingled languages, ‘cut-and-paste’
collage style aesthetic, nonlinear narrative, and nonconformist content pose compelling questions related to erotic subcultures, cultural taboos, heteronormativity, and discrimination. The analysis
focuses on how the visual-verbal format of zines contribute to the
need for narratives that focus on differences in experiences, instead
of imposing single-axis ideas and representations, to explore how
these texts represent the voices that lie at intersections by opposing homogenisation of identities and cultures. It highlights the
need to acknowledge the intersectionality of sexual identities to
practice a more inclusive and sensitised social activism.

2024, New England classical journal

The Bechdel Test is a term from popular film criticism that asks if a movie features at least two women (in some versions they have to be named) who talk to each other about something other than a man; it was first devised by Alison Bechdel and Liz Wallace. 1 The test is itself partly inspired by a passage in Virginia Woolf 's A Room of One's Own. 2 Although initially created as a rather pointed joke, it has become used as a way of critiquing the male-centered world of Hollywood, and has spread into other genres as well. At first glance, this might seem irrelevant to Classical texts. Ancient Greece and Rome were manifestly patriarchal societies whose literature was composed, as I say in almost every class I teach, by and for and about a male audience, so of course we do not expect many-or perhaps any-works of Classical literature to pass the Bechdel Test. Applying it, therefore, may seem to serve no purpose. Due in part, however, to some discussions I have had about this topic on Twitter, both with Classicists and with members of the wider literary community, I believe that thinking about the Bechdel Test and Classics can be valuable, in particular from a pedagogical viewpoint. It can provide an opening for discussions of audience, silencing, authorial intent, gender roles, and socialization, but it can also help 1 Bechdel (1985). 2 Woolf (2015, p. 62).

2024, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

Wildfires are both a devastating reality and a growing concern in the face of our changing climate. Brian Fies’s A Fire Story is a graphic narrative that sensitively presents the harrowing experiences of losing his home to Northern California wildfires (2017). This article offers insights from an email interview with Fies, examining the distinctive narrative affordances of the comic medium. The interview is divided into two sections. Part one titled ‘Drawn from the Ashes: Of Comics and Climate Change,’ Fies responds to questions regarding the artistic choices (visual storytelling elements etc.) he made to convey the emotional spectrum of the wildfire experience. Part two, titled ‘Rebuilding from Ashes: Resilience and Realities,’ Fies presents his perspective on the role of personal storytelling in addressing climate change and resilience. Put together, Fies reflects on the potential of comics to evoke empathy, raise awareness, and enable meaningful dialogue on urgent issues such as wildfires, climate resilience and natural disasters. In so doing, the present interview contributes to the discussion on the intersection of comics, personal narrative, and environmental crises, offering a nuanced understanding of the role of graphic storytelling in conveying the impact of natural disasters.

2024, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

Wildfires are both a devastating reality and a growing concern in
the face of our changing climate. Brian Fies’s A Fire Story is a graphic
narrative that sensitively presents the harrowing experiences of
losing his home to Northern California wildfires (2017). This article
offers insights from an email interview with Fies, examining the
distinctive narrative affordances of the comic medium. The interview is divided into two sections. Part one titled ‘Drawn from the
Ashes: Of Comics and Climate Change,’ Fies responds to questions
regarding the artistic choices (visual storytelling elements etc.) he
made to convey the emotional spectrum of the wildfire experience.
Part two, titled ‘Rebuilding from Ashes: Resilience and Realities,’ Fies
presents his perspective on the role of personal storytelling in
addressing climate change and resilience. Put together, Fies reflects
on the potential of comics to evoke empathy, raise awareness, and
enable meaningful dialogue on urgent issues such as wildfires,
climate resilience and natural disasters. In so doing, the present
interview contributes to the discussion on the intersection of
comics, personal narrative, and environmental crises, offering
a nuanced understanding of the role of graphic storytelling in
conveying the impact of natural disasters.